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60.45 (58.42): tail, 49.53-54.86 (54.10); exposed culmen, 12.95-14.48 

 (13.46); depth of bill at base, 6.3.5-6.86 (6.60); tarsus, 22.61-23.37 

 (22.86); middle toe, 17.02-18.03 (17..53). ' 



Atlantic coast of United States, in salt-water marshes, bveediug 

 from southern Massachusetts (Westport, near Rhode Island line) to 

 Georgia. 



Some specimens show more or less ])lack streaking on the posterior 

 portion of the pileum, but in the large series examined (40 adults) 

 this is never conspicuous. Autumnal and winter specimens show more 

 or less of a pale buff suffusion on the chest, the white malar stripe 

 also more or less buffy. 



Fringilla marltima Wilsox, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 68, pi. 84, rig. 2. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog.', i, 1831, 470, i)l. 9;-3.— Nuttall, :Maii. Orn. V. S. and Canada, i, 

 1832, 505; 2d ed., i, 1840, 592. 



\_Ammo(lnunu8'] maritbna Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 289. 



\_xiininodroinm'\ murUiina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 482. 



Ammodrnmus maritimus Bonaparte, Geog. and Consp. List, 1838, 32. — Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 18.39, 110; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 103, pi. 172.— Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 238.— Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul), iii, 1878, 

 48 ( Xahant, Massachusetts, 1 spec. Aug.). — Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 

 1880, 97. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 550. — 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 213 (Cuba) ; Birds W. I., 1889, 99 (Cuba) ; Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 112. — Cahoon, Auk, vii, 1890, 289 (^lononioy marshes. Cape Cod, Massa- 

 chusetts, Apr. 14, several) .—Stone, Auk, x, 1893, 85 (coast New Jersey, win- 

 ter) .—Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 93.— Howe, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 219 (iliddletown, Rhode Island, July 18) ; xv, 1898, 189 (Cape Cod, Massa- 

 chusetts, Feb. 9).— Knight, Bull. 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 98 (Shark I., Maine, 

 1 spec.).— Faxon, Auk, xiv, 1897, 320 (e. breeding range is w. shore Narra- 

 gansett Bay, Rhode Island; 3Iilton, Massachusetts) .— Sturtevaxt, Auk, xiv, 

 1897, 322 (Middletown, Rhode Island, May 31) .—Farley, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 322 (Westport, Massachusetts, breeding).— Chap.\ian, Auk, xvi, 1899, 4 (crit.) . 



A-lmmodramus] maritimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 367, part. — 

 Ridgway, 'Stan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 413, part. 



Ammodwtiius maridmus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 454; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 342.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 116, (e. United 

 States).— Samuels, Birds Massachusetts, 1864, 9. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 .Zool.,ii, 1871, 279 (e. Florida, winter).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1871, 23 (Fort Macon, North Carolina, resid. ; habits; song); Check List, 

 1873, no. 165. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist, N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 560, part, pi. 25, fig. 8.— :Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1878, 121.— Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. A., xix, 1878,305 (Nahant, Massachusetts); Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 48 (Nahant).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 119 (descr. young) .—Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 202.— 

 Maynard, Birds E. U.S., 1881, 121, part.— Lawrence (N. T.), Auk, ii, 1885, 

 272 (Far Rockaway, Long Island, Feb. 22 and Nov. 25) .— Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 683, part (Point Judith, Rhode Island, May 29; Madison, 

 Connecticut, June 17; Cape May, New Jersey; Fort Macon, North Carolina). 



[Ammodromus'] mnritimus CouEs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 138, part. 



1 Twelve specimens. 



